St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-27

ana preacneu Tor Two years tnefe. And with
these twelve consecrated men to start with at
ciouS preaching in that great city of Ephesus
the result is shown in the fact that
all the people that dwelt round
about in Asia heard tho word of
the Lord. both Jews and Greek. You cannot
stop the word of the Lord when it is preached
in its integrity, in its purity, in its sincerity
and in the courage of conviction. There is
not power enough in all the inventions of men
in all the world to-day to stop the word of
God from accomplishing that whereunto He
has sent it, Every newspaper in America
might taboo preaching and the gospel from
its columns tomorrow, but it could not stop
the march of the church of Jesus Christ, the
progress of the gospel with all their presses
locked against it. Cries of amen. Pigmy
army of Liliputians trying to stop the pro-
gress of the army of the living God and con-
quering the world to himself! All the police
men of this country might arm themselves
cap-a-pie, parade the streets and station
themselves at the door to stop the preaching
of the Salvation Army. And all the
POLICE JUSTICES
and mayors of prosecuting little communi-
ties might fine them, but they could never
stop the march of the army of God through
this land. Cries of amen. They could not
stop st. Paul, nor CAN they stop any of the
humble disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ,
who with the minimum of the faith of St.
Paul goes out to preach Christ in truth and
in sincerity. And there is no use getting
scared for fear that something is going to in
terfere with the progress of the Gospel. And
there is no use getting scared tina the people
are not going to hear. 1t may come that the
prophecy that is written there in the Book of
the Word of the Lord, Il will send q famine
on the land not of bread-not q famine of
bread, not OF thirst for water-but famine
of hearing the Word of God that may come.
RIf iS To th,r,1, RI, 1 fLn
prosecuting and pusillanimity and coward
ice of the professors of God aud not
from God himself. Not from the out
ward world interference with Gods plans.
This thing is true, and st. Paul discovered it
in Ephesus, and anybody with ten grains of
common sense, without the immortal compre-
hension of st. Paul, can discover it here in
Minneapolis, and that is that the gospel of
Jesus Christ and nothing else that is good
and high and noble, and which is perfecting
in its processes, can prevail in the commu-
nifty where the church and the world are bed
fellows and are hail-fellows-well-m met in the
public street. You've got to have a line be-
tween them. Jesus Christ drew it with his
own finger, and with his own word of wisdom
and counsel, and he separated his church
from the world, and to-day it is the duty of
the church to withdraw itself from contami-
nation with the world and be not equally
yoked with unbelevers. Christ separated it,
and so plainly that
ALL THE WORLD
could see the line that divided the church
from the world; but you cannot so easily find
the line now-hardly find the line in some
communities at all now. And 1 will tell you
another thing, when that animal was invited
to go into the wolves cave and refused and
said all the tracks point iE toward the cave,
and he was afraid if he went in he'd never be
able to make any tracks in the other dlrec-
ton; and if you will look at the mark of foot
prints that have rubbed out the line of posi-
tive demarkation between the world and the
church in Minneapolis this afternoon, you
will find that all of the toes are pointed from
the church toward tine world. 1t is a mistake
to believe that the church Of Jesus Christ is
being overwhelmed with the trash of the
world. That is mistake; the world is not
crowding into the church for the purpose or
with the object of prostIuting the church.
nor of occupying it by forcible possession, or
of making their dens in the sanct-
uary of God, because the very
place itself is 1ebuke to them
in their practice. But I'll tell you what they
do do, they come up close around the doors
of the church and toll off Christians from the
church to come and associate with them for
the purpose of raising their own respecta-
bility by having it said that there is no diff
ference between the church and themselves.
The only warrant in the universe 10 man
outside of the church of God saying he is as
ROOu dS luc pSOplc III Luo Is because
so many people who have been in the church
are out aSsociating with him and running
with him now. Have you received the Holy
Ghost since you believed? That is the test of
Christians character. That is the power of
God in his life. Without the Holy Ghost he
has got no moral force and no spiritual
power, and no grand consciousness that he is
more or better than any of his fellow mortals.
With the Holy Ghost, then he has got the r..
EVERLASTING CONSCIOUSNESS
that there is moral omnipotence in the doc
trine profess; there is spiritual power in
the life | am living, and there is eternal hope
of my accomplishing something and winning
something in the name of my Lord and
Leader. man in the church who has never
felt the first pulsatiOn of the presence of the
Holy Ghost in his nature; who has never
recognized one single inspiration of his
nature as haying had its origin in the Holy
Ghost, he only knows the Holy Ghost by
name. Why, he is like a man living with the
heart cut out. But there are people living in
this city to-day-and you know it as well as
know it-who, if they were honest with them
selves and honest with this community and
honest with God, and you were to put the
question to them, brother, sister, have you
received the Holy Ghost since you believed?
they would have to answer just like those
people in EpheSuS, except they'd amend it
and say, I've heard and read of the
Holy Ghost in the Bible, but as
IOr knowing d0yIn1nS ABOUT him
l never knew anything about him. And no
wonder, no wonder. You have never, in the
first place, invited the Holy Ghost to come in
and dwell with you and energize you and
comfort you and lead you into all wisdom and
all truth and all power. You have never
opened the doors Of your heart to his incom-
ing, and you never have set apart any de-
partment of your spiritual life, especially the
spiritual department of it, as subject to the
direction the leading the gOverance of the
Holy Spirit. l said, if you have a good in
spiration. if you have suggestion that you
ought to do something good you take all the
credit to yourself. 'sI'Il 60 and visit an old
sick sister, and then think it's something you
have invented yourself. I'll go to pray er
meeting this week. l believe haven't been
this year, but believe it is my duty and I
believe I'll go this night and you think you
have done something that ought to entitle
you to admission to the
HOLY ELITE CIRCLES.
Everything that is good you appropriate to
the big !. l did it; got it up; 1 suggested
the whole business Everything that is
mean you attribute to the devil Just got
this thing wrong. Every good suggestion of
your life originated with the Holy Spirit. 1t
would be heap more becoming in you to ap-
propriate the evil suggestions of your life to
your own origin; say, [ got them up. But
there is better way yet, and that is to cruelty
the big |, and say that all good suggestions
come to me from the Holy Ghost, pure and
sanctified and worthy of my acceptance and
my service, and all the evil is but the mech
anism of the devil to try and swerve Inc from
from my integrity in the Lord; am nothing
l am dead: am crucified in Jesus Christ; I
am killed all day long, and every good
suggestion in me is the suggestion
of the Holy Ghost, and all the glory
given where it belongs. There is the
better way. And tell you the true Christian
does that every day. And there is the secret
of his power; there is the power of his
effectiveness; there is the secret OF his char
acter; there is the secret of. the fact that he
is cipher drawn in the atmosphere of this
world. But he is a positive unit in the uni
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